The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 21
In front of the house he observed a bird that had been caught in some bushes, and this he put into his wallet beside the cheese.
Who acts: field, this · What happens: observe, catch, put · To what, where: bird, front, bushes, wallet
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (field, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 observed | nsubj |
| 7 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 caught | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 caught | aux:pass |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bird | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bushes | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 bushes | det |
| 16 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 caught | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 put | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 observed | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 wallet | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 25 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 27 cheese | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cheese | det |
| 27 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | field | a bird | front of the house | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | |||
| 2 | catch | past · perfect · passive | a bird | some bushes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | past | this | field's wallet | beside the cheese | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside cheese=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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